These are true stories of real people. Davey Crockett going down the Ohio on a flatboat has a fight with a "ring-tailed roarer." Mike Fink gets six sheep for his keelboat crew by outwitting a farmer. Jim Garfield falls off his canal boat about a week before a fight leads him to think he should go on to better things. wilderness waterways drama Sam Clemens pilots a Mississippi steamer and the pilot of the Robert E. Lee outwits the pilot of the Natchez to win a historic race.